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Butterick 5884

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This dress is classed as easy but it’s anything but with the sleeves. Its lined as well and the batwing sleeves are attached at the back seam so you’re working with three layers. The white fabric i choose was’nt enough as the sleeves take up a lot of fabric, i ordered more but the fabric that arrived was a different white, i ended up using it for the lining.I then decided to use a different coloured bottom and looked at pink and blue. My daughter said the blue was nice so i went with it. After all that i love this dress. its comfortable and not heavy so i wore it twice on my holiday. I do intend to make this again in a black or navy for the xmas season.x

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Anjovis that is such a lovely thing to say. This dress was one of these lucky flukes that happens to us sewers from time to time. I love the blue with the white now. I will eventually make another all white dress but for my holiday next year lol x

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I really can’t add any thing different to what all the other lovely comments say except that this dress looks stunning on you and I really do like the blue skirt with the white top. Your daughter was right!!!

WoW Mary! This is great! At the first site I thought it was a jacket you had over the dress, but it’s an adorable dress – and I would love to have one like this! ;) The blue color was perfect, but I’m sure one with red or black for X-mas will be very nice!

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Thank you liliv, this would be lovely on you. The sleeves give of a semi sheer look as they are’nt lined. I think this only adds to the dress.i do love this dress and the fabric choices are endless. I am definatly making another. X

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Thank you so much step-van-b, i really wanted an all white dress but its strange how much i love the blue and white. It’s the same fabric and has a sparkly sheen to it so its nice for a holiday. I got the shoes half price in a sale so i bought 3 pairs of the nude 2 in black and 1 ina silver colour x

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Thank you denim skirts, the instructions are always gobbledy gook so in the end i worked it out myself by using my dress form. It nearly ended up in my.unfinished pile but i kept at it as i thought it’ll turn out worth it x

Oh Mary, you look sooooo beautiful in this dress! The sleeves are very interesting. And I love the blue and how you finished the hem in white again. A really stunning dress! I’m sure you got lots of compliments:-)

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Thank you so much cris that is such a lovely thing to say. This is one of my most favourite dresses i have made so far. I said to my mum that i felt nice in it and once you are comfortable in something it shows x

What an interesting and pretty dress! These wings make anybody fly:-) Very romantic, smarty, beautiful outfit: the original sleeves, soft draping of wrapped fronts and very fresh combination of colours – blue and white. I’m sure your image attracts much attention and it’s worth any nice compliment! I like it very very much!!!

09/2017

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